In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone fine motor skills. Writing vocabulary and spelling words helps children ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...

I've always been fascinated by history. In the fourth grade I researched and wrote a report about my favorite U.S. President and the reasons why. After spending a couple of hours in the library using ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...

Love letters and missives home from the war front wouldn’t be as touching if they were printed instead of written in cursive. Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution wouldn’t seem as ...

Frisbee needs Mrs. House's help to sign his name! Watch as she teaches him how to use cursive letters to sign his thank you card. Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Research shows that legible cursive writing averages no faster than printed handwriting of equal or greater legibility. The highest speed and highest legibility in handwriting are attained by those ...